Today we have an episode of Ask Rachel on the show and you asked some truly beautiful questions.

We talk about grief and how to navigate the waves of grief over time.

And then we get into making a conscious decision about becoming a parent

and how much control we actually have when it comes to those big life decisions in the first place.

We talk about when home is not home for your spouse. So navigating wanting to live in two places and what to do when your homeland starts beckoning you to return.

At the end of the show I talk about seasonal and local foods

and how we can make some really healthy positive choices for ourselves when it comes to nourishing our families.

This was that really fun episode. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Let's go.

Hi friends hello hello how are you doing today? I am so happy to be here about to record a brand new episode of From the Heart. And my heart is just swelling at this moment.

I am feeling really raw and vulnerable today.

And I've been sitting here in my little podcast Nook for quite some time just with my hands to my heart.

Feeling and breathing and sort of contemplating life and hitting record to speak these words just filled me with this immense gratitude.

I'm so so grateful for you.

Thank you for listening and for returning to this show and for

journeying with me. I just, I don't know why I'm feeling so raw today, but it feels so

spectacularly special to get to do this for a living and to get to sit here and share and speak and that you listen.

So, hi, and thanks for being here.

So where I am sitting right now, I kind of almost don't want to say it, it is what it is it's fall over here

This whole week I've kind of been talking a lot about we're in that transitional space now. There is, oftentimes I feel a long

transition between seasons. It's not like we go from spring and then boom,

summer's here and then boom fall arrives and then boom it's winter you

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